Normans History

James Joyce is the high priest of modernist writing who lived a life of endless sacrifice to literature, loaded with poverty and petty humiliations. He blazed the path of the writer as resolute individualist, rejecting all conformity and risking everything, even public shaming, in order to "communicate" over the supine body of language with his enthralled readers.

"Sense and Sensibilia" is one of the short treatises by Aristotle that make up the Parva Naturalia. He discusses attributes, like those that are common to all living things. They include waking and sleeping, youth and old age, inhalation and exhalation, life and death.

Emerton discusses Eastern Europe in the later Middle Ages with reference to the fall of Kievan Rus to the Mongols, and the rise of the Grand Duchy of Moscow. After the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, the Russian princes started to see themselves as the heirs of the Byzantine Empire. They took on the imperial title of Tsar, and Moscow was described as the Third Rome.

Der Untergang der Titanic ist Legende. Als der Ozeandampfer in der Nacht zum 14. April 1912 nach dem Zusammenstoß mit einem Eisberg versank, kamen mehr als 1500 Menschen ums Leben. Trotz intensiver Suche wurde das Wrack des Luxusschiffes erst am 1. September 1985 gefunden. Jahrzehntelang lieferten sich Forscher, Schatzsucher und Abenteurer aus der ganzen Welt ein regelrechtes Wettrennen um den Fund des Titanic-Wracks.

Learn how Richard Trevithick's early experiments lit the blue touchpaper of railway development, and how George Stephenson and his son Robert designed and built the world's first trunk railways. Meet Daniel Gooch, the brains behind Brunel's Great Western Railway, and relive the great Race to the North between Francis Webb and Patrick Stirling. Marvel at the designs of Churchward, Collett, Stanier and Bulleid, and be dazzled by the speed, power and beauty of Sir Nigel Gresley's masterpieces.

Emma Goldman was a passionate critic of the prison system, criticizing both the treatment of prisoners and the social causes of crime. She considered crime as a natural outgrowth of an unjust economic system, and in her essay "Prisons: A Social Crime and Failure" (1911), she quoted liberally from the authors Fyodor Dostoevsky and Oscar Wilde on the subject.

All Henry VI "The Mad" ever wanted was peace. But everything kept going to hell around him, till his mind broke from the pressure of having to rule two kingdoms, wage a war, and survive countless cabals all the while having not a single clue how rulership worked. Henry VI was thrown into power at the tender age of nine months, and kept being let down by everyone around him, while he struggled to understand what was going on.

Aristotle's Parva Naturalia concludes with definitions of the stages of the life cycle, from the generation of a new living being up to death. Aristotle considers living beings as food burners: They nourish themselves, and in some cases, they have the capacity for higher functions such as mental perception.

In this treatise, Aristotle raises a number of questions that any adequate theory of aging must address. The treatise examines whether there is one cause that makes everything long-lived, or whether the cause is diverse for plants and animals.

An essay included in Emma Goldman’s 1910 collection Anarchism and Other Essays. This essay argues that the modern drama (live plays in theatres) can spread radical thought and disseminate new values. Each performance operates through the double channel of dramatist and interpreter. Affecting as it does both mind and heart, it is the strongest force in developing social discontent.

Steam's Indian Summer is a window into the great watershed period in Britain's railways; the change from steam haulage to diesel and electric traction. Highlights include the last years of the named expresses like 'Bristolian', plus visits to far-flung but legendary and unique corners of the national network, like the Cromford & High Peak Railway.

Emma Goldman harshly criticizes Puritanism and its reign of terror in England during the 16th and 17th centuries. She claims that it hurt writers like Oscar Wilde and Shelley, and alienated Byron from his native land. She calls Puritanism a censor of the artistic expression of people, facilitating only the dullness of respectability.

In this essay, Emma Goldman expresses her opposition to women’s suffrage, as she was opposed to all forms of government. She disagreed with the argument of many suffragists that women's participation would clean up a corrupt political system. Women's suffrage, Goldman believed, would at best be irrelevant and at worst, it would divert attention from more important issues.